Word: rigord
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...rigord between his hands...
...early Romans valued the light-colored Libyan truffle, while the French regarded the dark variety from Périgord as an aphrodisiac. M. Boscary de Ville-Plaine spoke...
...Four picked a pink palace for the momentous Foreign Ministers Conference which convenes in Paris next week. Known as the Palais Rose, it belongs to the Duchess de Talleyrand-Périgord, formerly Countess de Castellane, formerly Anna Gould. Furniture movers, electricians and telephone men were hard at work to get everything ready. No less hard at work were the Foreign Ministers' advance guard-U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup, Britain's Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, France's Alexandre Parodi-in an attempt to "harmonize" their nations' views on what ought to be the West...
...champagne luxury was something to cable home about. Her passengers were amazed by what they could eat, drink and buy in the shops. In the mammoth dining saloon amidships or in the tonier Verandah Grill on the afterdeck, first-class passengers ate sirloin steaks, Timbale de Volaille Périgord, pineapple souffle, coupe Jacques...
Like Hitler, Napoleon created "a great panic" in Europe, started "intercontinental terrors" all over the globe. The way to check this panic, Historian Ferrero believes, was discovered by French Foreign Minister Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, and "the way out" was achieved with the sometimes reluctant help of Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Louis XVIII of France...